‘Age is just a number. It’s never too late to follow your passion’: Kewal Kapoor, Founder, CHAI Kreative

The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. It has its origins in a parlour game popularised by Marcel Proust, the French essayist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature.

A successful writer, journalist, producer and director, Kewal Kapoor spent several years in the creative industry before turning entrepreneur and founding CHAI Kreative, an advisory agency that helps startups lock in the right strategies and solutions. Parallel to this endeavour, is his pursuit of actively fighting age discrimination and creating an amenable environment for the elderly through his initiative, Return of the Million Smiles. Here are his answers to our Proust questionnaire...

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Happiness is a state of mind and body when both work in tandem to propel your journey in life.

What is your greatest fear?

Violence. Violence destroys us as a culture, as a nation and I am worried about violence consuming us as human beings.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

My habit of smoking.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

The pompous display of money.

Which living person do you most admire?

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He offers a lot of humane positivity in a world being torn apart by differences.